Talk:Professionalism/Rolling Stone & UVA: A Case on Professional Journalism

We need to clean up the references--the Columbia report is cited a number of times. I think this will help (from Wiki help):

Same reference used more than once[edit] The first time a reference appears in the article, you can give it a simple refname inside the first ref code. To avoid name collisions, you can use the author name followed by year of publication, or an abbreviated version of the title. If it will be used often, pick a unique, memorable, and easily typed refname.

(angle bracket)ref name="smith2008">DETAILS OF REFERENCE /ref (in angle brackets) Subsequent times that you cite the same reference in the article, you can use this shortcut instead of re-typing it (take note of the "/" at the end):

(angle bracket)ref name="smith2008" "/>" You can then use the refname shortcut as many times as you want (but never forget the "/", or it will blank the rest of the section).

For an example article where there are three sources, and they are each referenced three times, see William Bowyer (artist). For more details see WP:REFNAME.

Refname rules[edit] Generating refnames as suggested above is not difficult, but the complete rules are quite detailed. Names for footnotes and groups must follow these rules:

Names are case-sensitive Names may not be purely numeric Names must be unique—you cannot use the same name to define different groups or footnotes Quotes are optional if the only characters used are letters A–Z, a–z, digits 0–9, and the symbols !$%&*,-.:;<@[]^_`{|}~ Inclusion of any other characters, including spaces, requires that the name be enclosed in quotes (") The quote marks must be the standard straight keyboard marks ("); curly or other quotes will be parsed as part of the reference name. Quote-enclosed names may not include a less-than sign (<) or a double straight quote symbol (") Please consider keeping names simple and restricted to the standard English alphabet and numerals. (You may optionally provide names even when the name is not required.)

Jjr5aa (discuss • contribs) 13:24, 4 May 2015 (UTC)

Okay, I went ahead and did that. I'm calling it "CSJreport".

Jjr5aa (discuss • contribs) 13:28, 4 May 2015 (UTC)